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Shawnee Brave
Taxodium distichum 'Shawnee Brave'
Shawnee Brave is grown for its foliage rather than flowers, giving the garden structure and color all season long.
Months here are Northern Hemisphere months; in the Southern Hemisphere, shift them by six months.
Growing Shawnee Brave
Plant it in full sun. It prefers high water. It is hardy in USDA zones 4–9. Expect it to reach about 49 ft tall and 16 ft wide at maturity, in roughly 20 years (not yet checked).
No toxicity note is on file for Shawnee Brave. That is not a clearance: check its safety for people and pets before planting.
What was checked
Mature height and spread, hardiness zones, sun and the trait tags were checked against named botanical sources for this plant. The bloom months and water need on this page were not, and each fact above says which. The planting, spacing and size sections are derived from these checked facts by a fixed rule, not checked separately, and the plant type is the library's own classification.
When to plant Shawnee Brave
Plant Shawnee Brave in spring once the soil is workable, or by very early fall at the latest: an evergreen needs its roots down well before the ground freezes. In zone 6, the middle of its hardy zones 4 to 9, that is March to May, or August on the fall side.
Month-by-month timing for your zone is on the planting calendar; if you garden near zone 6, the middle of this plant's hardy range, start with zone 6 in March. Derived from the plant's category, zones and bloom months plus typical zone frost dates, not checked separately.
How big does Shawnee Brave get?
49 fttall5 ft 7 inan adult16 ftwideSee Shawnee Brave in a garden plan: the planner shows it in 3D beside everything else you add, growing toward this size over the years.
How far apart to plant Shawnee Brave
Derived from the mature spread above by a fixed rule, not checked separately: spacing is the spread, center to center.
Give Shawnee Brave about 16 ft of clear ground in every direction, measured from its center. It is one plant with room around it, not a row, and a raised bed is too small for it.
Add Shawnee Brave to a garden plan and the planner draws it at its full width, so you see the spacing before you buy.
Where these facts come from
Shawnee Brave's height, spread, hardiness zones and sun were checked against 5 published sources on July 29, 2026. Each one is linked below with every fact it carried, which can include a fact this page still marks as not yet checked, because a source carrying a value is not the same as the value being held to the standard. Facts not in that list, and the planting, spacing and size sections, are not covered by these sources.
- Missouri Botanical Gardenheight, spread, hardiness zones and sun
- Pleasant Run Nurseryheight, spread and hardiness zones
- frankpmatthews.comFrank P Matthewsheight and spread
- NC State ExtensionPlant Toolboxhardiness zones and sun
- woodyplants.cals.cornell.eduCornell University Woody Plants Databaseheight and spread
How the checking works, and what each standard covers, is on the verified plants page.
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